The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

And then, why will you that pray with them only at night, thereby curtail half the Homage and Rent that is due to God? Doth not the same Scripture that commands the Evening Sacrifice, require the Morning Sacrifice also? Exod. 29. 38, 39. Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the Altar: two Lambs of the first Year, day by day continually. The one Lamb thou shalt offer in the Morning; and the other Lamb, thou shalt offer at Even. And have not you as much cause to bless ⟨p. 225⟩the Lord together for your Sleep and Safety in the Night, as for your Mercies in the Day? Nay, have you not greater need to beg divine Assistance, Protection and Grace, when you go out into the World, than when you only go to bed? Think of it, and answer these things in your Consciences, if you can.

And then, how unfit are you and the rest of your Household for any lively and earnest Prayers, at unseasonably late hours? Do not you come to them at such times, rather as to an unwelcome Task, than as to a gracious Privilege? and accordingly they are performed; one sleeping in one corner, and another in another; God hath no Honour, you no Edification by them, which should be great Ends of all Religious Duties.

And then, how unfit are you and the rest of your Houshold for any lively and earnest Prayers, at unseasonably late hours? Do not you come to them at such times, rather as to an unwellcome Task, than as to a gracious Priviledg? and accordingly they are performed; one sleeping in one corner, and another in another; God hath no Honour, you no Edification by them, which should be great Ends of all Religious Duties.

And the other grand Omission of the Tradesman, is of the Lord's-Supper. Some of them can live to thirty, forty, fifty Years of Age, (I speak what I know) without ever once approaching the Lord's Table. And yet that blessed Saviour of ours in his last Will and Testament (and dying Commands are usually observed) commanded the frequent use thereof, to all that expect benefit by his Death. If, Do this in remembrance of me, be not a plain Command, nothing is plain in the Scripture: How can ye satisfy your Consciences in such a palpable Disobedience? Besides, you lose unspeakable Comfort and Strength, which is conveyed into the Soul of the true Believer therein. Say not, you are not worthy, but labour to be worthy, and let your godly Minister be judg in the case; certainly, that Unworthiness